FILMOGRAPHY DIGNA SINKE
2010 WISTFUL
WILDERNESS (WEEMOED & WILDERNIS), final documentary about the
island of Tiengemeten 1996-2009 and temporality (88 min, script
& direction)
Competitie Visions du
Réel Nyon 2010
Competitie Hot Docs Toronto 2010
2010 NEW TIENGEMETEN, documentary (53 min for NPS television, script & direction), part 3 of a series about the island of Tiengemeten
2009 DREAMLAND, ARCHIVALIA nr 09-001, short film (5 min) for art project Neighbours in Delden (direction, camera, editing)
2008 ATLANTIS, fiction feature film
about a 13 year-old girl trying to find her way in nearby future
(85 min, script
& direction) with
Pitou Nicolaes, Yorrin Kootstra, Annemarie Prins and Bert Luppes
San Sebastian
Zabaltegi 2008
Transsilvania International Film Festival, Cluj 2009
Competitie Nederlands Film Festival 2009
Kiev en Odessa, Nederlandse filmweek 2010
2006 TIENGEMETEN 2001 - 2006 (80
min and 54 min for NPS television, script & direction), part 2 of a series about the island of
Tiengemeten
Competitie Nederlands Film Festival 2006
2005 BROSSA, documentary on the
Catalan poet and visual artist Joan Brossa and his fascination
for film (in the framework of Le Cinéma Invisible, 70 min en 55
min voor VPRO, script
& direction)
International
Film Festival Rotterdam 2005
Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid
2005
Montova 2005
Competitie Nederlands Film Festival 2005
2004 HOPE & EXPECTATION (HOOP
& VERWACHTING), short film in the framework of SEED/ZAAD
(7:25 min, direction, camera, editing)
Zonnemaire, de Nacht
van de Buitengewone Film 2004
North Devon 2004
2001 TIENGEMETEN, documentary (77
min, script
& direction), part 1 of a long term project on
nature, landscape and changes on the island of Tiengemeten
Highlights
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2001
Documentaire sur le Grand Écran, Paris 2002
Eco Cinema International Film Festival, Zakynthos 2002
Competitie Nederlands Film Festival 2002
L'International du Cinema de L'Estrie, Quebec 2002
Environmental Filmfestival, Washington 2002
International Sasa Award, Rome 2003
Festival du Cinéma Nordique, Rouen 2004
1999 SPACE TO THINK (LUCHT OM NA TE DENKEN), video film (37 min) commissioned by the Foundation for Fine Arts, Design and Architecture BKVB (script, direction, editing)
1998 DE FAMILIE BOM, home movie about the genealogy of the Zeeland family Bom (script, direction, editing)
1993 BELLE VAN ZUYLEN / MADAME DE
CHARRIERE, fiction feature film and 3 part series for NPS
television on the friendship between the Dutch novelist Belle van
Zuylen and Benjamin Constant (105 min, script & direction), with Will van Kralingen, Laus Steenbeeke
Nederlandse
Filmdagen 1993:
Nominatie Gouden Kalf Beste Film
Nominatie Gouden Kalf Beste Regie
Nominatie Gouden Kalf Beste Actrice
Competitie
Films des Femmes - Créteil 1994
Houston International Film Festival 1994
Riga Film Festival 1994
Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival 1994:
Main Prize Mannheim Heidelberg
Festival du
Film Histoire Rueil-Malmaison 1994
Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid
Cairo International Film Festival 1994
Sao Paolo International Film Festival 1994
Festival Internacional de Cine Realizado por Mujeres - Madrid
1994
Bombay International Film Festival of India 1995
Göteborg International Film Festival 1995
Festival Coopération Internationale Sans Frontières -
Casablanca
1992 ABOVE THE MOUNTAINS (BOVEN DE
BERGEN), fiction feature film about a group of people on a long
distance walk from north to south in the Netherlands, looking for
"the mountains" (107 min, script & direction), met Catherine ten Bruggencate, Johan
Leysen, Eric Corton, Esgo Heil, Roos Blaauboer en Renée Fokker
Filmfestival
Rotterdam 1992
Filmfestival Berlijn 1992 - Panorama
Films des Femmes Créteil 1992
Houston International Film Festival 1992
Minneapolis International Film Festival 1992
Rivertown International Film Festival 1992
Vlaams Filmgebeuren - Gent 1992
Seattle International Film Festival 1992
Cairo International Film Festival 1992
Sao Paolo International Film Festival 1992
Göteborg International Film Festival 1993
International Film Festival Palm Springs 1993
Vilnius
Litouwen, Dutch Cultural Week 1993
1990 FAREWELL (AFSCHEID), short experimental film about industrial objects (regie en montage)
1990 NOTHING LASTS FOREVER (NIETS VOOOR DE EEUWIGHEID), feature documentary on industrial archaeology in the Nederlands (74 min, script & direction)
1989 DE BRIEF (The Letter), video project with students of the School for Performing Arts Amsterdam (Toneelschool) (script, direction, editing
1985 NEW WAVE (DE NIEUWE GOLF), feature documentary on avant-garde music in the Netherlands (87 min, script & direction)
1984 THE SILENT PACIFIC (DE STILLE
OCEAAN), fiction feature (105 min, direction), with Josée
Ruiter, Josse de Pauw, Andrea Domburg;
Competition Berlinale
1984
Valladolid 1984
Athens 1985
1982 DE HOOP VAN HET VADERLAND (The Hope of the Fatherland), feature documentary on the history of a school paper and why most people did not become poets (90 min, script, direction, editing)
1979 CARRY VAN BRUGGEN, documentary about the Dutch novelist Carry van Bruggen for NOS television (50 min, script & direction)
1978 BALLET, WHAT'S THAT FOR?
(BALLET WAARVOOR DIENT DAT?), commissioned film on educational
activities of the Scapino ballet (38 min, script & direction)
Prix de Qualité 1978
1978 A VAN GOGH ON THE WALL (EEN
VAN GOGH AAN DE MUUR), documentary about the reproduction of the
painting Terrace by Night by Van Gogh, for NOS television (50
min, script
& direction),
Candidate Prix
Italia 1978
1975 THE HELLE BROTHERS (DE GEBROEDERS HELLE), short fiction film about a mother and two sons in a small village (28 min, script & direction), with Cor van Rijn, Hidde Maas, Jeanne Verstraete and Loes Vos
1973 STADRAND (City Border), two documentaries on the city border of Amsterdam (direction, co-direction and editing)
1972 GROETEN UIT ZONNEMAIRE (Greetings from Zonnemaire), short fiction film (24 min, script & direction), final exam film for the Nederlandse Film & Televisie Academie
Will van Kralingen as Belle van Zuylen, Kees Hulst as De Charrière
foto: Jan Schut
some films are available on DVD, please contact sngfilm@xs4all.nl
OTHER THINGS:
GALERIE MOKUM
(Amsterdam 1973) exhibition gouaches
LANGHUIS (Zwolle 1979) exhibition paintings, photographs, and
travel reports
GALERIE BEELD EN AAMBEELD (Enschede 1979) exhibition paintings
and travel reports
KUNST EN BEWEGING (Art en Movement)(1996) co-author of book on
the history of the Dutch Federation of Artist's
Organisations (Federatie van Kunstenaarsverenigingen)
TIENGEMETEN, THE WEBSITE (2003) editor website www.tiengemeten.com
VROUWEN VAN PICASSO (2004, reprise 2005) director theatre play
written by McAvera, for the National Theatre with Will van
Kralingen
PERRON 1 (Delden 2007) object Lost & Found (The Extensive
Catalogue)
PERRON 1 (Delden 2009) installation on De Watersnoodramp (the
Flood of 1953)
Project NEIGHBOURS (Buitenbioscoop Delden 2009) film Dreamland
Since October 2001 producer and managing director of SNG Film (Studio Nieuwe Gronden) www.sngfilm.nl